THE JAPANESE ARMY.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 284, 5 December 1904, Page 2

THE JAPANESE ARMY.

AN AUSTRALIAN ON ITS . ._... -METHODS. - SPLENDID MACHINE. rvi™ , „ MELD OURNE, Dec. S Colonel Boud, Australian attache with the JapawsTarZ J2 "Hushed the Federal with a compendious report studying. Japanese army SelLd. £ <°« nd the tilngs SiW^LA Xn% tap ° roUtine "*<££s£■ aUon For some years the Jamil "• have relied entirely on th«1?oto officers for c^ : ««dlw« is elastic anSlapAte of vapid expansion in ease at Tm£ S "*> »'««> is an entire I Why between the civil, •nd naval authorities. The motfiSh «• practical in all thU.« ConSS » by a board „ n the &J2u£ *d by most of the nations. TheTl pan«£ however, have much to tew lery, which moves slowly to action Phey were slow to use the roil™ abandoned by the Russia™v« hough the lines and bridges w *3 oft iceable; there j, no drunkomwta. im very little crime ; in -rything is so orderly that it w MI hard at times to believe there wm m a,n fa {iv Am • he staff the absence■rf excitement or display is most marked Both in the camps and c* -ho battlefield lliero is no show ot togs denoting the whereabouts OC the headquarters' staff, a general or »ny other officer. All ranks are la. npired by their ofllcors' example. Too Japanese soldier maintains bis Tabulation as the descendant of a raca uf fighting men of several'centuries; he has both energy and endurance, ind his marching powers are remarkable. Though at times shoeless and ■m short rations, he made no complaint regarding these drawback*. He is possessed of great courage, awl when wounded seldom allows an expression of pain to escapo him; Bray* In action, ho will readily follow W» officers.